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Arab American Activism / Odeh, Camille

Odeh, Camille	Journal Article
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This article provides a first-hand account of Arab American activism from the 1967 war to the present. It focuses on the development and activities of Arab Americans in the metropolitan Chicago area, with particular emphasis on the activities of Arab American and Arab students in the decades after the '67 war. It also describes the alliances forged between African Americans and Arab Americans during those tumultuous decades, as well as offering suggestions for what Arab American activists should do in the future.

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Chicago ; Access ; Jesse Jackson ; Arab Americans ; AAUG ; Organization of Arab Students (OAS) ;
Harold Washington

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Change we can believe in: Barack Obama, race and the 2008 US presidential election / Verney, Kevern

Verney, Kevern	Journal Article
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2011.

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This article addresses two questions. It begins by comparing the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination contest with the 1980s campaigns of Jesse Jackson. It examines the different background and personalities of Obama and Jackson, together with an analysis of what has changed in US political life in the intervening decades, in an attempt to understand why Obama succeeded where the earlier Jackson campaigns failed. The second part of the article analyses the subsequent general election with a view to determining whether Obama's defeat of John McCain should be seen as a result of a unique set of political circumstances, or evidence of the increasing irrelevance of race in US electoral politics. In particular, this discussion assesses the validity of the claims made by some commentators that Obama's victory marks the beginning of a new 'post-racial' era in American political life.

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John McCain ; Obama ; Rrace ; Jesse Jackson ; US Electoral Politics

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